Tree Quotes - Page 17

• But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!

  Robert Graves

  Confused, Good Luck, Moon

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• One Tree Hill was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.

  Hilarie Burton

  Lucky, Television, Levels

  FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Aug 22, 2013

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• When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

  Alicia Silverstone

  School, Years, Company

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• Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

  Tom Baker

  Long, Ornaments, Glitter

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• My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

  Carre Otis

  Dog, Acres, Olives

  "Speaking for the Silent" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2012.

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• [On women getting the vote:] The newspapers, poor dears, looked of course for something very spectacular. But then newspapers are always apt to be more interested in phenomena like meteors than in the slow growth of a mighty tree. Wait ten years, and the politicians will one day wake up and say, 'Look who's here!

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Years, Waiting, Growth

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• A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Men, Differences, Shadow

  1547 Letter to Benedetto Varchi.

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• That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.

  Bryan Swanson

  Wind, Storm, Lines

  "BAY AREA / Storms head for soggy Bay Area / 'Wet, windy' through end of the week" by A. Estrella, www.sfgate.com. December 28, 2005.

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• The primary purpose of the Legislature in establishing "Arbor Day," was to develop and stimulate in the children of the Commonwealth a love and reverence for Nature as revealed in trees and shrubs and flowers. In the language of the statute, "to encourage the planting, protection and preservation of trees and shrubs" was believed to be the most effectual way in which to lead our children to love Nature and reverence Nature's God, and to see the uses to which these natural objects may be put in making our school grounds more healthful and at-tractive.

  Andrew S. Draper

  Children, Flower, School

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• Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth.

  Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Growth, Mind, Contentment

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy. ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.

  Anne LaBastille

  White, Giving, Feelings

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• I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

  Jessica McNamee

  Aunt, Australia, People

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• Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Looks, Way, Totems

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• Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.

  Laurie Holden

  Home, Community, Southern

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!

  Nancy Farmer

  Ostriches, Elephants, Rivers

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• Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy.

  Kathy Acker

  Dog, Powerful, Believe

  Kathy Acker (1989). “Blood and Guts in High School”, p.37, Grove Press

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• I've killed enough of the world's trees.

  Stephen King

  World, Enough

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Roots, Attachment, Age

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• When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.

  Mary Ruefle

  Book, Fall, Giving

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• I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

  Marshall Curry

  Cutting, Thinking, Police

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• I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hate, Animal, Meditation

  "Ellen DeGeneres to Ann Curry: 'I don't like a lot of attention.'". Interview with Ann Curry, www.today.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

  Janet Burroway

  Children, Land, Apples

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• When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

  Pete Seeger

  Mirrors, House, Looks

  Source: portside.org

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• Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.

  Patti Smith

  Light, Inspire, Littles

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